A bird cannot roost but on one branch. a mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drinking
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If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about vision, drinking, wine, people, contentment
Ask no favors and people everywhere are affable; if you don't drink, it doesn't matter what price wine is.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drinking, wine, people, contentment
I own a cow in heaven, but I cannot drink her milk.
Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about drinking
A mare who has had a foal will never again drink pure water.
Proverbs and old sayings about purity, drinking, water
There's no point in whistling at an ox who doesn't want to drink.
Proverbs and old sayings about drinking
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Proverbs and old sayings about drinking
You can make a mule cross the river but you cant make him drink the water.
Proverbs and old sayings about drinking, water, contentment
Extol the virtue of water, but drink wine.
Proverbs and old sayings Czech about virtue, drinking, wine, water
You cannot drink and whistle at the same time.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about drinking, time, contentment
Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about drinking
One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about rightness, drinking
You may force an ox to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about force, police, drinking, water, contentment
You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about drinking, water, contentment
Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about nothing, drinking
You may force a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about force, police, drinking, water, contentment
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water, drinking
It is prophet-drink.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about drinking
It is prophet-drink (i.e. water).
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about drinking, water
Good drink drives out bad thoughts.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about drinking, bad luck, bad, good, good luck
